COLUMN. To win the cultural and intellectual battle, Europe must staunchly defend its model, writes the economist in his column, dismantling the narrative of a 'declining' continent.
The culture that made that happen also played a role in making you who you are. It’s OK to be proud of that.
(And likewise, it’s good to correct for how your culture influenced you in ways that you aren’t proud of. For example, it took me a long time to realise what Black Peter must look like from the outside.)
Note that I wasn’t talking about European culture specifically, or any specific culture, for that matter. Just that your environment shaped you, and thus you can feel some pride for what that environment also begat. Pride needn’t be reserved for the extreme right.
Ah yes, European history, famously full of compromise and tempering. /s
Edit: I guess what I’m saying is, each of those stages fed the neighboring one to, like, lions or guillotines. It wasn’t really an additive, growing process, and classical Roman culture is a lot more like Chinese culture than modern European culture, in some ways.
You might as well add in the bronze age cannibals and Neanderthals as well, at that rate.
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Figures. :blobamused: #Palestine is the country that contains the genocidal terrorist enclave that its immigrant settlers call “#Israel”.
The culture that made that happen also played a role in making you who you are. It’s OK to be proud of that.
(And likewise, it’s good to correct for how your culture influenced you in ways that you aren’t proud of. For example, it took me a long time to realise what Black Peter must look like from the outside.)
There isn’t a single European culture, and this word is often a dog whistle to racism, especially in Northern Europe.
Not saying you’re using it that way, just telling you.
Wait, what word? Culture?
Note that I wasn’t talking about European culture specifically, or any specific culture, for that matter. Just that your environment shaped you, and thus you can feel some pride for what that environment also begat. Pride needn’t be reserved for the extreme right.
No culture is 100%, but we in Europe mostly share a foundational Greco-Roman philosophy and the values of Christianity and Enlightenment.
I like how you mashed together three totally opposing things and eras there.
Opposing things sure, but “totally opposing”? I don’t think so. They have tempered each other, not invalidated.
Ah yes, European history, famously full of compromise and tempering. /s
Edit: I guess what I’m saying is, each of those stages fed the neighboring one to, like, lions or guillotines. It wasn’t really an additive, growing process, and classical Roman culture is a lot more like Chinese culture than modern European culture, in some ways.
You might as well add in the bronze age cannibals and Neanderthals as well, at that rate.
You mean the one that was gone until it returned from the Islamic world?
Uh-huh Palestine isn’t in Europe, last I checked.
Palestine isn’t anywhere, last I checked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine
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Figures. :blobamused:
#Palestine is the country that contains the genocidal terrorist enclave that its immigrant settlers call “#Israel”.